A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists ...

Researchers in New Zealand found that a small species of shark makes noises with their teeth when touched by humans — and now ...

But scientists now think the enormous creature looked "closer in shape to a lemon shark or even a large whale". The usual way to guess at the size of a megalodon is by taking tooth measurements ...

Shark biologists now say a lemon shark, like this one ... moving beyond traditional methods that rely primarily on tooth size. By examining megalodon’s vertebral column and comparing it to ...

Along with teeth, the existing fossil record includes parts of giant ... tanklike great white but rather a more streamlined fish, such as a lemon shark. In this discovery, Shimada said, his team also ...

Because the megalodon's triangular, serrated-edge teeth look much like those of the ... and a weight of about 94 tons (85 tonnes). A modern lemon shark – just imagine this, but eight times ...

Thanks to research published in 2023 on its fossilized teeth, we're now fairly confident ... taking the new length estimates into account, the lemon shark appears to be the closest modern analogue.

New research suggests that the prehistoric megalodon, the biggest shark known to have existed, was even larger than we thought.